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Submission Window: September 1st - 8th, 2023 Payment: 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $350 (CAD) per story. Theme: SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes Note: Apologies for the short notice, hopefully you have something laying around, we were just notified of this market. What We Want Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction. We’ll be publishing reprints, but no more than one per issue, so expect acceptance rates to be accordingly lower. Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories. We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter. What We Pay Both previously unpublished work and reprints pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $350 (CAD) per story. Our preferred method of payment is PayPal. If you live in a region where PayPal is not available, we’ll do our best to work with you to find an alternate method of payment. How To Submit Send your stories in RTF, DOC, DOCX or ODT file formats. Standard manuscript formatting is nice but not necessary. No one’s going to get accepted or rejected based on manuscript formatting, so don’t stress about it....